Moreover, these joint data
from humans and mice provide the first evidence that neurodegenerative effects of airborne PM may involve gene - environment interactions with APOE ɛ4, the major genetic risk factor for pathological brain aging and AD.
In their latest research, the Joslin team performed many experiments to explore the actions of these two proteins, called centromere protein A (CENP - A) and polo - like kinase - 1 (PLK1), in mice and in cells
from humans and mice.
Furthermore, they integrated single - cell datasets of pancreatic tissue
from humans and mice, thereby identifying 10 cell types that were shared across species and defining the evolutionary changes occurring in each group.
To make this discovery, the researchers stimulated isolated neutrophils
from humans and mice with nicotine and could measure a dose - dependent release of inflammatory molecules.
Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples
from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.
The researchers have compared various processes involved in gene expression, such as gene transcription and chromatin modification, and have repeated this in different tissues and cell types
from both humans and mice.
Not exact matches
Data
from experiments on phytic acid using
mice and other rodents can not be applied to
humans.
Hassles such as buying paper towels or searching for the perfect used car that used to require legwork,
human interaction,
and possibly even wearing pants can now be done with a click of a
mouse from one's own living room.
This need stems
from the mammalian brain, a commonality that affects cats, dogs,
mice...
and humans!
This region has the highest oxytocin levels in the brain
and has high levels of oxytocin receptors across all species
from mice to
humans.
Depending on results
from further behavioural studies in
mice and humans, the abnormalities could then be treated in parallel with seizures.
«Apart
from humans and some domestics that
humans brought with them,
mice are the most globally distributed mammals,» he says.
Compared with
mice with cells
from healthy people as well as non-chimera
mice, those whose brains had
human schizophrenia cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (
from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering,
and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.
Dr. Issa's team made their discovery after first examining methylation patterns on DNA in blood collected
from individuals of different ages for each of three species —
mouse, monkey,
and human.
Both
mouse and human males typically die early
from the mutation in Mecp2, because their Y chromosome does not supply a normal copy of the gene.
The Salk team therefore took
human brain organoids that had been growing in lab dishes for 31 to 50 days
and implanted them into
mouse brains (more than 200 so far)
from which they had removed a tiny bit of tissue to make room.
Mice ranged in age
from a few months to almost three years, monkeys
from less than one year to 30 years,
and humans from age zero to 86 years (cord blood was used to represent age zero).
PDX models are created by implanting cancerous tissue
from a
human primary tumor directly into immunodeficient
mouse or rat models, enabling acceleration of oncology research or drug discovery
and development programs.
The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure
from normal activities — but not others, such as stress
and anxiety,
and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in
mice than in
humans, he says.
These four genes
and their proteins constitute the heart of the biological clock in flies,
and with some modifications they appear to form a mechanism governing circadian rhythms throughout the animal kingdom,
from fish to frogs,
mice to
humans.
To see whether this also applies to
humans, the team engineered stem cells
from people with
and without Down's syndrome
and injected them into
mice.
The «training data» were generated
from 78
mice infected with influenza or the cytomegalovirus (CMV)
and 32
humans infected with flu, CMV or the Epstein - Barr virus.
And the transformed cells proved to be very similar to actual stem cells from both mice and huma
And the transformed cells proved to be very similar to actual stem cells
from both
mice and huma
and humans.
Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, commented: «These findings suggest that dogs could be a better model for nutrition studies than pigs or
mice and we could potentially use data
from dogs to study the impact of diet on gut microbiota in
humans,
and humans could be a good model to study the nutrition of dogs.
When they analyzed microbes found in fecal samples collected
from mice and humans at different times of day, they discovered rhythmic fluctuations in the abundance of microbes
and their biological activities.
«Finding these similarities
and studying the aspects of
mouse biology that may reflect
human biology, allows us to approach the study of
human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors
from the ENCODE Consortium
and a lecturer in molecular
and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.
University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson
and Joseph Ochaba with the Departments of Neurobiology & Behavior
and Psychiatry &
Human Behavior
and their colleagues
from UCI
and from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the mutant Huntingtin protein corresponds to improvement in symptoms
and neuroinflammation in HD
mice.
An additional study, currently available at bioRxiv, led by the researchers
from the CRG
and Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, highlights the fact that a substantial part of
human and mice genes have maintained an essentially constant expression throughout evolution, in tissues
and various organs.
The IGF1 protein is crucial for the growth of mammals, including
mice and humans, so Ostrander's group
and other collaborators began collecting DNA
from additional breeds to see if they also shared the same gene variant.
Several species, including Arabidopsis, rice,
mice and humans, copy a surprising amount of RNA
from the «wrong» DNA strand — that is, the strand opposite the one that specifies a protein.
The
human (
and all the other) genome projects were predicated on the reasonable assumption that spelling out the full sequence of genes would reveal the source of that diversity of form
and attributes that so readily distinguish worm
from fly,
mouse, chimp
and human.
That's the tantalizing finding
from a new study published today that reveals a way that
mice —
and potentially
humans — can control the makeup
and behavior of their gut microbiome.
In experiments on normal
and MLL cells
from mice and humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in cancer stem cells that prompt leukaemic blood cells to multiply.
The same observations were made in organoids (artificially grown masses of cells that resemble an organ) created
from unique basal progenitor cells that were isolated
from the gastroesophageal junction in
mice and humans.
Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the
human - derived stem cells
from Down syndrome patients
and mouse models to determine whether cellular
and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy
and other candidate drugs.
P: They are still a far cry
from humans,
and you haven't had huge increases in the life span of
mice.
In addition to looking at
mouse models of diabetes, the researchers also showed that exposure of
human pancreatic islet cells — both
from healthy donors
and from patients with Type 1 diabetes — to fasting - mimicking diet in a dish stimulated insulin production.
By promoting DNA demethylation, high - dose vitamin C treatment induced stem cells to mature,
and also suppressed the growth of leukemia cancer stem cells
from human patients implanted in
mice.
Concerned that the immune systems of clean
mice might not be good proxies for the
human immune system — no
human is brought up in such clean conditions
and fed such clean food — they housed lab
mice with
mice from a pet store.
While
mouse models have traditionally been used in studying the genetic disorder, Deng said the animal model is inadequate because the
human brain is more complicated,
and much of that complexity arises
from astroglia cells, the star - shaped cells that play an important role in the physical structure of the brain as well as in the transmission of nerve impulses.
To see if they would suffice to make H5N1 infection less severe, Webby
and his co-workers injected
mice with DNA for the neuraminidase gene
from human H1N1, one of three flu subtypes covered by this winter's flu shot.
As reported in a paper published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers
from Penn Medicine, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,
and a group of international collaborators studied ANGPTL3 in both
humans and mice.
Researchers have isolated exosomes
from tumors
and from blood of patients with breast cancer,
and from blood of
mice with
human tumors grown after breast implantation in
mice, called ortoxenogratfs.
The two reports also showed that Zika virus infected
and damaged neuronal stem cells harvested
from mice and humans.
The normal
mice's brain plaques seemed to be built
from human A-beta protein,
and the only source of that was the blood of the mutated partner
mouse.
Additionally, work in a
mouse model revealed similar cells, indicating that the progenitors are conserved
from mouse to
human,
and therefore, they must be «important cells with promising potential for cell therapy in treating liver disease,» explained Dr. Gouon - Evans.
Unlike rodent models, which are developed
from inbred strains of
mice kept in controlled environments, companion animals, like
humans, are genetically diverse
and are exposed to many of the same environmental influences as their owners are.
Using a
mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of
human adult
and fetal tissues, investigators
from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female
mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development
and spread of infection during birth.
The
mice benefited
from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes
and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.
While
human - animal chimera work is still in its infancy (
and faces ethical
and funding hurdles, see sidebar), hybrids of rats
and mice are already hinting that growing an organ
from